Jeremías 38:11

11 Ebedmélec lo hizo así, y fue al depósito de ropa^[a] del palacio real, sacó de allí ropas y trapos viejos, y con unas sogas se los bajó a la cisterna a Jeremías.

Jeremías 38:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 38:11

So Ebedmelech took the men with him
The thirty men, as the king ordered: as soon as ever he had got the grant, he immediately set about the work, and lost no time to save the prophet's life: and went unto the house of the king under the treasury;
from the gate of Benjamin he went to the king's palace, and to a particular place under the treasury; by which "treasury" may be meant the treasury of garments, or the royal wardrobe, under which was a place, where clothes worn out, or cast off, were put: the Septuagint represent it as underground, a cellar under the wardrobe: and took thence old cast clouts, and old rotten rags:
the Syriac version has it, such as cattle were wiped and cleaned with: and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah;
for it was so deep, that men could not reach to put them into the hands of the prophet; and, had they been thrown in, they might have been scattered about and be out of his reach, who stuck in the mire; or they would have been in all likelihood greatly bedaubed with the mire.

Jeremías 38:11 In-Context

9 —Mi rey y señor, estos hombres han actuado con saña. Han arrojado a Jeremías en la cisterna, y allí se morirá de hambre, porque ya no hay pan en la ciudad.

10 Entonces el rey ordenó al etíope Ebedmélec:—Toma contigo tres hombres, y rescata de la cisterna al profeta Jeremías antes de que se muera.

11 Ebedmélec lo hizo así, y fue al depósito de ropa del palacio real, sacó de allí ropas y trapos viejos, y con unas sogas se los bajó a la cisterna a Jeremías.

12 Ebedmélec le dijo a Jeremías:—Ponte en los sobacos estas ropas y trapos viejos, para protegerte de las sogas.Así lo hizo Jeremías.

13 Los hombres tiraron de las sogas y lo sacaron de la cisterna. Y Jeremías permaneció en el patio de la guardia.

Footnotes

• [a] "al depósito de ropa" . Lit. "debajo de la tesorería" ; véase 2R 10:22.